Delaware Voice: Getting a foot in the door via apprenticeship

7:00 PM,
Mar. 21, 2014

Written by

Stacie Beck and Eleanor Craig

The recovery of employment since the 2008 crisis has been unusually slow. The unemployment rate has at last dropped below 7 percent because many have left the labor force. Total employment is still below its 2007 level.

Persistent unemployment can be due to structural causes. For example, contraction in housing and retail may reduce jobs in those industries, while there may be expansion in other industries that require skills that the unemployed do not have. Usually this type of unemployment is concentrated among older workers near retirement.